Just then the kid upset the milk over Freddie's trousers, and when he had come back after changing he lacked sparkle.
It was shortly after breakfast that Jeeves asked if he could have a word in my ear.
Now, though in the anguish of recent events I had rather tended to forget what had been the original idea in bringing Freddie down to this place, I hadn't forgotten it altogether; and I'm bound to say that, as the days went by, I had found myself a little disappointed in Jeeves. The scheme had been, if you recall, that he should refresh himself with sea air and simple food and, having thus got his brain into prime working order, evolve some means of bringing Freddie and his Elizabeth together again.
And what had happened? The man had eaten well and he had slept well, but not a step did he appear to have taken towards bringing about the happy ending. The only move that had been made in that direction had been made by me, alone and unaided; and, though I freely admit that it had turned out a good deal of a bloomer, still the fact remains that I had shown zeal and enterprise. Consequently I received him with a bit of hauteur when he blew in. Slightly cold. A trifle frosty.
'Yes, Jeeves?' I said. 'You wished to speak to me?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Say on, Jeeves,' I said.
'Thank you, sir. What I desired to say, sir, was this: I attended a performance at the local cinema last night.'
I raised the eyebrows. I was surprised at the man. With life in the home so frightfully tense and the young master up against it to such a fearful extent, I disapproved of him coming toddling in and prattling about his amusements.